The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1903 Page: 1 of 10
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
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The Chandler News.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LIiNCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. 13—No.. 50.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. SEPTEMBER 3, 1903.
FRIENDLY WORDS APPRECIATED.
TT IS A PLEASURE to the people
*■ of Chandler to note the many
complimentary expressions in the
papers of the territory concerning
our city and its growth and improve-
ment and future. In another column
we reprint an article from the Guth-
rie Capital, which is one of the best
we have seen. But of all the good
things that have been said about
Chandler there has been none that
was appreciated more than the article
which we reprinted recently from the
Meeker Herald. Its graceful com-
pliment to the industry, enterprise
and perseverence of our people and
its description of the advantages of
Chandler would be hard to beat, but
the best thing about it all was the
fact that it was an example of the
friendly spirit in which most of the
towns of the county regard the
county seat. We believe that the
able editor of the Herald did not
merely express his own feelings in
this article but that he voiced the
sentiment of the people of Meeker,
who, conscious of the advantages
and the achievements and the possi-
bilities of their own little city are
broad-minded enough to rejoice at
the growth and improvement of the
county seat and to realize that the
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THE LINCOLN COUNTY EXHI? \
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FROM THE CHINESE OF HO-LI BY W. V. B.
THE MASTER SAID: In the Path of the Mean
only is safety for a Superior Man. It happened
once, that a donkey on the road to Kwangzu met a
hyena, who praised him for his good qualities, but regret-
ted that he lacked the power of eloquent expression, which
nature had given to the family of hyenas. Whereupon the
donkey brayed most strenuously, and the hyena confessed
himself in the wrong. "You are of all animals the best
fitted for oratory," said the hyena, "and I have no doubt
that at Pekin you will attain the peacock's feather and be
a controlling influence in the affairs of the Celestial King-
dom." Whereupon they parted with mutual expressions
of admiration. The hyena, as soon as he was out of hear-
ing, began to feel his own superiority so strenuously that
it excited his sense of humor until he could no longer con-
trol it. He laughed at all donkeys until his mirth attracted
a peasant who objected to the sense of humor in hyenas,
and shot him through with an arrow. The donkey, on the
contrary, being a serious-minded animal, continued undis-
turbed on his road to Pekin, where he led a long life of
usefulness, drawing a cart, after having been freed by
severe but useful exercise from all desire to bray. "Thus,"
said the Master, "we see that the donkey is not made
ridiculous by his voice, if he practices the Doctrine of the
Mean and loses all desire to compel the rest of the world
to his own views, while the hyena, who knows nothing of
the Doctrine of the Mean, never learns to control his voice
until he has lost his skin."
—St. Louis Mirror.
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success of
Chandler will prove a benefit rather than a draw-
back to Meeker and the other towns in the
county. The people of Chandler not only appre-
ciate this spirit, but they are willing to recipro-
cate by doing in turn whatever they can that will
advance the interests of these other towns. There
is no reason why there should be any but a
friendly feeling between the county seat and the
other towns of the county. As a farmer living
many miles from here recently expressed it,
Chandler is the "county town," and with but few
exceptions all the people of the county are inter-
ested in our progress. In this sense there can be |
rivalry between Chandler and our neighbor towns,
for the county seat question hae been so settled
that it can never be disturbed. Chandler is also
the oldest of the towns, the largest and the most
centrally located. Chandler does not regard the
other towns of the county as rivals and for that
reason is not jealous of their success or inclined
to do anything to interfere with their progress.
On the other hand, as the "county town" Chan-
dler will be great only as Lincoln county is a
great county, and the growth of the other towns
adds unmistakably to the development and en-
richment of the county as a whole. While the
future of Chandler must now as always depend
mainly upon her own citizens, the feeling of
county pride which prompts our friends in other
parts of the county to do us a good turn when
they can will always be a valua' le aid in the up-
building of the county seat.
TF THE GOOD points of the Angora goat are
1 not greatly overrated he is certainly one of
the most-needed animals in Lincoln county; if
even half of what is claimed in his favor can be
relied upon the subject of what he can do will be
worthy or careful study by most Lincoln county
farmers. And there is no good reason for skep-
ticism on this subject, for we not only have the
authority of government officials but the testi-
mony of our citizens to the fact that Angora goats
will clear up brush land more quickly and com-
pletely than it can be done in any other way, and
at the same time pay their way by the wool pro-
duced and by the increase. There is an immense
amount of land in Lincoln county which would
I be valuable if it were prepared for cultivation
but which is absolutely worthless so long as it is
left in brush. The owners of such land pay taxes
on it year after year when in many cases it is not
even fit for pasture. They would clear it and
put it into cultivation if it were not for the ex-
pense, but the cost of clearing in the ordinary
way is so great as to cause them to put it off and
leave the land in an unproductive state. If all
this land were put to some good use it would be
better for the county, better for the land owner,
I and better for the good health of people in gen-
1 eral. It is claimed from actual experience in
this county that in two years time a flock of
Angora goats will clear the worst piece of brush
land more completely than it can be done with any
breaking outfit, and the soil will be left in a condi-
tion to be plowed with an ordinary stirring plow.
HERE IS DANGER that I
coin county may not be rep*
sented at the World's Fair next ye '
with an exhibit that will do the coun
justice. Many people have not
stopped to think of the real import-
ance of this opportunity, and others
who appreciate the value of the ad-
vertising that we will be able to get
have been inclined to leave the mat-
ter entirely with the officials and
committees having charge of arrange-
ments. The result has been that a
great many of the finest specimens
of grains and fruits have not been
secured for exhibit. Many persons
realize that they have very fine
specimens, but they take it for
granted that others have something
better or else the World's Fair com-
missioner would have been around.
It is impossible for the commission-
ers to travel around looking for
things for the exhibit, and such a
plan would be rather expensive any-
how, so the safest way is for every
one who has some fine fruit, some
big corn stalks, or some very good
wheat or oats, some tall kaffir or
millet, some unusual cotton, or any-
thing else that would help to show up
the resources of the country, to
send it to Mr. Dimon, at Chandler, even though
it may be that some one else can do better.
What our fair commissioners want to show is not
that Oklahoma can in a few cases beat the rest
of the world so much as that the average of our
products in yield and quality is better than the
average of the other states, and to do this it will
be necessary to have many specimens from many
farms. Every specimen should be marked with
the name of the person who raised it and the
location of the farm on which it was grown. The
commissioner is not able to offer much in the
way of prizes, so it is necessary to appeal to the
pride of the people of this county to see that
the county receives justice in comparison with
the other parts of the territory. In the Oklaho-
ma exhibit car which went east last week to
exhibit at the state fairs, Lincoln county was not
represented at all. This ommission, however,
will not be nearly so serious as it would be for us
to be left out in the big show at St. Louis next
year. Oklahoma has had so much advertising
that the eyes of the whole country are turned in
this direction, and probably no state will receive
so much attention from the people of other states
i at the Fair as Oklahoma will. The exhibits from
1 the territory will be scanned and the resources
i and advantages of each section will be studied,
! and it goes without saying that the portions which
have the best exhibits will realize the greatest
returns from their efforts. These benefits will
come largely in the way of attracting immigra-
I tion and capital.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1903, newspaper, September 3, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117706/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.